soccer

i love soccer. it's my passion in life. playing soccer is not only a privilege, but a gift from God. soccer is a way for me to focus my mind on 3 things: 1) team 2) awareness and 3) self-improvement. these things, i believe, are important in life.
1) you have to work together with your friends and family in order to get through the journey we know as life.
2) you need awareness of the world around you so you can see the flow of history, and so you can see the good and bad in the world and do something about it.
3) and you have to focus on making yourself a better person; someone more Christ-like.
you only have time to do this during practice, or a game.
you have give your best every game because you don't know if you're going to get an injury and have to sit out for 3 months. you don't know what's going to happen in the game or outside of it. that is why you play your hardest every practice and every game.
see soccer is much like life: it's always moving forward, there are fast plays, there are mistakes, you see the cost of your mistakes and you try and make up for your mistakes in your hard work where you give every little bit of energy to play your best. no practice, play or scrimmage can really prepare you for a game; they are circumstantial plays because every circumstance is different with new variables, much like life. these are the times where the flow of play (the course of your life) is changed based on your decision and effort.